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67 THE POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL processes which, in the course of the nineteenth century, shaped the dominant ideological credo in Greece, according to which classical antiquities acquired the status of symbolic national capital have been thoroughly analyzed by research. Despite considerable discrepancies, nineteenth-century museum displays reflected and reproduced this ideological orientation by offering visitors a reading which presented antiquities as fine-looking objects and unquestionable national emblems. Evident in several aspects of civil life and reflected in official ideological apparatuses, museums included, this form of ancestor worship was powerful enough to survive until the beginning of the twentieth century, despite the fact that some ‘cracks’ in the model were beginning to appear as early as 1897. At the beginning of the new century Greek archaeological museums were blooming: new museums were being founded, museum practices stabilized and permanent staff was appointed. Did this improvement in museum practices also reflect some kind of transition to a different ideological model of the management of antiquities and, consequently, of their display? This is the main question on which this paper focuses. More specifically, I am interested in examining how the official rhetoric concerning antiquities prevailing during the first decade of the twentieth century was incorporated, maintained and reproduced within the corresponding museum ‘narrations’. I shall focus on the time period between 1900 and 1909 because: • It was an especially prolific period in the development of archaeological museums. • This development was checked to a great extent after 1909. • I am interested in examining the degree to which the ideological inheritance of the nineteenth century continued to exert influence during the transition to the twentieth.

‘Artfully classified’ and‘appropriately placed’: notes on the display of antiquities in early twentieth-century Greece